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I've just used unetbootin (latest - 292 I think) to burn the 8.10 release alternate CD to a USB key and I can confirm that the installer cannot proceed past the "Detect CDROM" stage. I'm giving up for now and using 8.10 Desktop, but this means that I can't use full-disk encryption (a requirement for my work) which means that I can't use Ubuntu as planned at my organisation (without a lot of hassle - buying CDROMs for the laptops (assuming I can) - burning CD's, etc).
I've tried simply mounting the USB into /cdrom using terminal two of the installer, which works breifly but it then fails with a "failed to copy file from CDROM" error message. This may have something to do with the use of Unetbootin, but I don't really understand grub, the installer script, or about 99% of this thread, so I can't comment.
My preference for a solution would be to include full-disk encryption on the Ubuiqity Live CD, but since that's been deferred for the last two releases, I think getting it working here is more likely.